We have a duty to honour the inter-generational contract articulated by Edmund Burke.
To hit our decarbonisation targets, to restore a once-proud industry, and to support renewables, we need to expand conventional and innovative nuclear technologies.
Patel got a lot done – in particular, improving international rules about emergency spending. Now her successor must work on an aid policy for Global Britain.
Michael Gove has made a great start at DEFRA, but from farm subsidies to onshore wind there is plenty more the Party can do.
Whatever else unfolds in the coming years, we need to look near and far for learnings and solutions to our emissions challenges.
The mundane local concerns of people going about their daily lives cannot be ignored. That doesn’t mean getting down into the gutter with the Lib Dems.
The Blue Belt policy of working with UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” is succeeding.
Most residents want this basic service to be provided, and escaping from the constraints of EU red tape should make it easier.
Employment, taxation, and three environment are three areas where we can show the Tory agenda is bigger than Brexit.
Nearly everything believed to exercise Labour more than the Tories was also named more often as a priority for “me and my family” than for Britain as a whole.
We have, in effect, a national bar that takes the power to out of the hands of local people and leaves it with Sir Humphrey.
Instead of chasing targets for their own sake, we will be free to explore new opportunities for energy supply, jobs and environmental improvements.
Ministers have been vindicated for backing this renewable source – as recent figures show that it can make a significant contribution to meeting the UK’s energy needs.
Brexit offers green opportunities, but it will also open a governance gap that must be filled.